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Mental Health & Law

Evaluations and expert opinions for the Courts, law enforcement agencies, and governmental organizations that continuously address matters of human behavior
Assessments for the Courts
Assessments for Attorneys and the Courts

Evaluations and expert opinions for the Courts, law enforcement agencies, and governmental organizations that continuously address matters of human behavior.

Testimony and Report Rebuttal Consulting
Mental Health Testimony and Report Rebuttal Consulting (for attorneys)

Mental Health Translation and Advisory for Strategic Preparation of Legal Cases.

Institutional Consulting
Institutional Consulting

Evaluation of Compliance with Standards of Care, Confinement, Training, and Policy.

Assessments for Attorneys and the courts
1. Forensic Evaluations and expert opinions for the Courts include:

Civil evaluations

  • Psychiatric and Medical Malpractice
      • - Informed Consent
      - Privacy
      - Civil Commitment
      - Suicide
      - Psychiatric Diagnosis (mental, addiction, personality disorders, intellectual disability)
      - Psychopharmacology and Medication Side Effects
      - Impaired Professionals
      - Professional Sexual Misconduct
  • Employment Litigation
      • - Disability
      - Worker’s Compensation
      - Fitness-for-duty evaluations - specific to the position
      - Safety in the Workplace Assessments
  • Personal and Psychological Injury
      • - Psychiatric Causation and/or Damages
  • Asylum Petitions
      • - Assessment of victims of torture
      - Cultural Aspects of mental illness and treatment
  • Psychological Autopsies
      • - Death Investigations
      - Situational Analysis
  • Capacity
      • - Contractual
      - Testamentary
      - Guardianship
  • Sexual misconduct and sexual harassment
  • Discrimination
  • Child and Elder Abuse Evaluations
  • Involuntary hospitalization and Civil Commitment
      • - Involuntary treatments or forced medications
      - Dangerousness assessments

Criminal

  • Competency
      • - To stand trial
      - To waive rights
      - To be sentenced
      - Post-conviction matters
  • Legal insanity
      • - Criminal Responsibility
      - Diminished Capacity and actuality
      - Mitigating Factors for Sentencing
  • Death Penalty
      • - Competency to waive appeals
      - Competency to be executed
  • Malingering Assessments
  • Risk Assessments
      • - Violence
      - Suicide
      - Sexual Recidivism
      - Arson
  • Criminal Behavior Analysis
  • Expert witness testimony

Military / Law Enforcement

  • Fitness for Duty
  • Voluntary Intoxication
  • Post Traumatic Stress
  • Suicide by Cop

Other

  • Sexual Misconduct
      • - Sexually violent predator/person assessment
      - Risk of sexual recidivism
      - Assessment of biological treatments
  • Dangerousness Assessment
      • - Violence
      - Suicide
      - Arson
      - Stalking Assessment
  • Death Investigations and Situational Analysis
  • Medical Ethics
  • Independent Medical Examinations (IME)
  • Litigation consultation to assist in case preparation
2. Forensic Evaluation of compliance with standards of care:
  • Conditions of Confinement
  • Quality of Care
  • Institutional Regulations of Care
  • Measures for Quality Improvement
3. Expert Witness Testimony at Deposition or Trial on all matters
* Forensic topics listed here represent a limited overview of potential assessments. Specific evaluations not listed may be available on request.
* All evaluations available in English & Spanish.
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Mental Health Testimony and Report Rebuttal Consulting
(for attorneys)

For attorneys, sometimes the best expert is the one that helps challenge or invalidate the opposing counsel’s expert. The expert may provide consultation or counsel, review an opposing expert’s report and opinion and offer rebuttal points (or a rebuttal report), observe an expert’s deposition or testimony and provide key insights for cross-examination, and so much more. Experts are familiar with scientific, technical, and professional texts or statements, and therefore, can help navigate, interpret, and challenge these at every step of the way. Of course, our consultants may also be retained as the experts to conduct an evaluation, produce a written report or provide expert witness testimony; but often times the advantage of having expert counsel in the attorney’s counsel without having to put them on the stand is invaluable.
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Institutional Consulting
Maia’s professionals offer consulting to a number of organizations including hospitals, correctional facilities, outpatient treatment providers, and more.

Evaluation of compliance with standards of care, including:
  • Consultation to correctional facilities and institutions, to assess for compliance with current guidelines of management of the mentally ill population, and to optimize safety precautions.
  • Consultation to hospital facilities and other health institutions, to assess for compliance with current guidelines of management of the mentally ill population, to optimize safety precautions, and to identify and correct deviations from the standard of care on behalf of practitioners.
  • Consultation to schools and other educational institutions, to assess for compliance with current guidelines of identification and management of mental health symptoms in children, to optimize safety precautions, and to identify and correct deviations from the standard of care on behalf of practitioners.
  • Consultation to academic institutions, to collaborate in the design, development, and implementation of educational and training programs of medical students, psychiatry residents, and subspecialty fellows.
  • Consultation to political institutions, to collaborate in the design, development, and implementation of policies and programs geared towards optimizing mental wellbeing of the population.
Consultation to Medical Schools

The Maia Institute provides expert consultation to US and Canadian medical schools on issues related to LCME (Liaison Committee on Medical Education) Accreditation. Consultation is available for medical schools preparing for an LCME accreditation survey site visit and for medical schools with preliminary, provisional or probationary status.

The Maia Institute provides consultation on medical school administration and organization, curriculum design and evaluation, continuous quality improvement, faculty affairs, and student affairs.
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Consultation to Psychiatry Residency Training Programs

The Maia Institute provides expert consultation to Psychiatry Residency Training Programs on issues related to ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) Accreditation. Consultation is available for Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Psychosomatic Psychiatry Training Programs in achieving and maintaining compliance with requirements of the NAS (Next Accreditation System of ACGME) including Milestones and CLER (Clinical Learning Environment Review).
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Consultation to psychiatry residency training programs
Consultation to Federal and State Correctional Facilities and Psychiatric Hospitals

The Maia Institute provides expert consultation to correctional facilities and psychiatric hospitals in achieving compliance with CRIPA (Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act) provisions and standards of safety for both staff and individuals served. Consultation is available for institutions under review by or under settlement agreements with the US DOJ (US Department of Justice).
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Consultation to government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

The Maia Institute provides expert consultation to government agencies and NGOs on policy, advocacy, best practices and program development regarding mental health, substance abuse, forensics, corrections, violence, and related areas.
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Expert consultation to government agencies